VP of Engineering

Employer

Faire

Location

Kitchener, Ontario

Starts

Oct 2, 2018

Closes

Oct 29, 2018

Job Function

Engineering

Job Type

Full time

Company Size

Scaling (20-499)

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Faire is using Machine Learning to change wholesale and help local retailers compete with Amazon and the big box stores. We're backed by the top VCs in the world (Sequoia, Khosla, and Forerunner), we're lead by an experienced team (Square, Google), and we're building a world-class culture of freedom and responsibility.

Role description:

We’re looking for VP of Development to develop and execute strategic initiatives for our engineering team. Our current initiatives are focused on scaling up operations, switching servers, starting microservices, releasing mobile applications on Android and iOS as well as further developing our web app. At the same time we are wanting to implement best practices internally to ensure our system can manage our rapid growth without breaking down. We need someone who knows what to do and have the confidence to execute on it.

As a VP of Engineering, you'll collaborate with us to:

Take ownership of our code coverage and develop a strategy to increase it over time

Work with the engineering team to audit our existing tools and ensure we are equipped with the right technology to measure and enforce code quality

Build an engineering management team from scratch to help stay on top of our OKRs and keep our employees engaged

Identify any existing and future gaps in our engineering team and working with our talent team to fill in those holes

Work with our CTO to ensure we’re on pace to achieve our OKRs as well as developing future metrics for success

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will..

Lead at the junction of business, product, technology, and team challenges, and who can use the scale of Faire today to accelerate growth

Work in a rapidly growing company with new challenges and opportunities on a daily basis, never being a dull moment

Build and improve engineering groups that work on a spectrum of new and creative market-defining products

Work with talented engineers who can see your vision through

Take ownership of critical strategic initiatives and seeing them through

Work with state of the art tools, we want the best tech to achieve the best results.

We are excited about you because you have….

Experience leading and growing a large team of software engineers

You have 8+ years engineering management experience in high-growth engineering organizations

Are you ready to change an industry? Excited to enter on the ground floor of a fast-paced, high-growth startup in a wide open market?

There are over 1M independent retailers in the US and Canada, doing more than twice the revenue of Walmart and Amazon combined. Economic data shows: compared to the big box stores, local retailers are flourishing because they offer a better shopping experience. However, the antiquated wholesale industry is holding independent stores back, and making life miserable for the makers trying to reach them.

Our goal at Faire is to rethink the wholesale model with an online marketplace that makes it easy for retailers and makers to connect and succeed together. Instead of flying all over the country to attend trade shows, retailers can visit our site to shop for hundreds of curated makers that they can try out totally risk-free. This revolutionary offering has drawn over 60,000 retailers to the Faire platform less than a year after our launch.

Our founders led product and engineering for Square Capital ($10B deployed) and the Cash app (Square’s only app in the top 20 of the iOS app store). We're backed by some of the top VC funds including Sequoia, Khosla, and Forerunner and we were named one of the top 8 companies at our Y-Combinator Demo Day last year.